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This article was published on May 3, 2011

100,000 staples arranged over 40 hours and other awesome staple art.


100,000 staples arranged over 40 hours and other awesome staple art.
Courtney Boyd Myers
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Courtney Boyd Myers

Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally. Previously, she was the Features Editor and East Coast Editor of TNW covering New York City startups and digital innovation. She loves magnets + reading on a Kindle. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter @CBM and .

Artist Peter Root created the following “Ephemicropolis” city arranging 100,000 staples in over 40 hours.

Using staples in a different theme, artist Rob O’Brien used 190,560 staples to create this “ripple-in-liquid” piece of art and the following piece of art titled “Linda”.


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